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No habitation other than an isolated fisher's cottage was to be seen between the little fishing-port at the northern curve away to the south, where beyond a waste of sandhills and strand another tiny fishing-village nestled under a high cliff, sheltering it from northerly wind.
He even evinced an aversion to dogs and to little children, driving them away from his shack whenever he found them near it. The threat that "Old Tom will catch you" would make a cove fishing-village tractable at any time. Old Tom rarely put to sea, and when he did it was more often than not after nightfall, a time when the good folk of the village were preparing for a night's rest.
It was curious to notice, in this quaint little fishing-village by the sea, how clearly the gradations of society were defined. The place prided itself most upon having been long ago the residence of one Governor Chantrey, who was a rich shipowner and East India merchant, and whose fame and magnificence were almost fabulous.
On the third day of the Easter recess Percy Dacier landed from the Havre steamer at Caen and drove straightway for the sandy coast, past fields of colza to brine-blown meadows of coarse grass, and then to the low dunes and long stretching sands of the ebb in semicircle: a desolate place at that season; with a dwarf fishing-village by the shore; an East wind driving landward in streamers every object that had a scrap to fly.
She had gold hair, and a rosy face, and the greyhound that followed her was called Iambe." "Where did you meet her?" shrieked the centurion. "In the fishing-village at the foot of the mountain," replied Hermas. "She got into a boat, and away it went!" "Towards the north?" asked the Gaul. "I think so," replied Hermas, "but I do not know, for I was in a hurry, and could not look after her."
It was not long before they passed the jutting headland that hid the little fishing-village from view; but Olga still stood motionless at the rail, fighting down the cold dread at her heart. She could hear Violet's voice on the other side of the deck, gaily chattering to Hunt-Goring. The scent of their cigarettes reached her, and she clenched her hands.
It's the prettiest little fishing-village, with the finest cliffs I ever saw. But it's hardly the season for Etretat the actresses have not yet arrived. You'll find it dull." "We will not stay there long," I said. "But tell me about it. I should like to know." "Etretat," said my companion, "is rather a bohemian resort.
In the pines Timoteo stopped, and looked upward through the swaying treetops. "A Dios sea gloria por Jesu-Christo," he murmured reverently. Jo bent down and slipped under the barbed wire fence that separated the field back of the Chinese fishing-village from the other fields that stretched away to the houses of the California seaside resort under the pines.
A summer hotel stretched its verandas along a lovely level; everywhere in clovery hollows and on breezy knolls were gray old farmhouses and summer cottages-like weather-beaten birds' nests, and like freshly painted marten-boxes; but all of a cold New England neatness which made me homesick for my malodorous Spanish fishing-village, shambling down in stony lanes to the warm tides of my native seas.
That's enough!" and would thank him in a voice of emotion; while the school committee and the parents would whisper together in awed admiration. And then would be the time to resign! The school lay on the outskirts of the fishing-village, and the playground was the shore.
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